Cork-puller



(No Model.)

B. E. BROWN.

GORK FULLER.

Patented Oct wvwmi EDWARD E; BROWN, OF WINSTED, CONNECTICUT.

CORK-FULLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,478, dated October8, 1895. Application filed September 1,1893. Serial No.484,577. mamas.)

To 610% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. BROWN, of Vinsted, in the county ofLitchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Cork-Pullers, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art canmake and use the same.

My invention relates to the class of devices used for removing a corkfrom a bottle; and the object of my invention is to provide such adevice by which the distance to which the screw shall penetrate the corkmay be predetermined and the mutilation of the cork prevented.

To this end my invention consists in the details of the several partsmaking up the device as a whole, and in their combination, as

more particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a View in elevation of acork-puller embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a View, partly inlengthwise section, through the device with the lower part of the framebroken away.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter (t denotes a frame the lowerend a of which is preferably made round in order to fit upon the mouthof a bottle. The sides of the frame are cut away between the part a, andthe upper end for the purpose of securing lightness, and in the upperenda is provided a socket. The upper edge of the frame a is also providedwith a catch (L as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. A raising-screw I),provided with an exterior thread 12 is located in the socket a thesocket being of such size as to allow afree lengthwise movement of thescrew therein, this raising-screw being tubular in form and the upperend I) being provided with a smaller screw-thread upon which is securedthe handle a. The lower end of this raising-screw h is provided with acrosswise slot 19 the raising-screw b is placed a sleeve d, that isthreaded on its interior surface to fit the thread on the raising-screw,and. the lower edge of this sleeve bears a lock (1 (see Fig. 1 of thedrawings,) oppositely arranged to the look a on the upper edge of theframe. a. Within the raising-screw b is located the shank e of thecorkscrew e, the lower end of (See Fig. 1 of the drawings.) Upon theshank being provided with a locking-pin e of a size and length to fitthe slot 19 in the end of the raising-screw b. The upper end of theshank e is screw-threaded, as at a and upon this end is secured atension-cap f, having an interior thread fitting the thread 6 Thistension-cap may be provided with a hole extending crosswisetherethrough, in which may be located the ring f, that may be used forthe purpose of suspending the device as a whole or as an aid inunscrewing the tensioncap.

Within the handle 0 is provided a recess 0',

and in this recess is located a spiral spring g, the lower end of thespring resting upon the upper end of the raising-screw b and the upperend of the spring pressing against the under side of the. tension-capf.In the present device the opening through the raising-screw b is shownsomewhat larger than the shank e of the corkscrew e, and to provide asuitable rest for the spring 0 the washers g are provided on the upperand lower sides of said spring to prevent it from being forced into therecess between the shank e and the raising-screw b at its lower end orfrom interfering with the operation of the screw-thread e at its upperend. a

In the device as illustrated herein the upper part of the socket on theframe is shown as having a lockingcatch and an oppositely-arrangedlocking-catch located on the lower edge of the collar, and although thisform is preferred it is obvious that other forms of catch may be used,or the catch may be dispensed with entirely and provide an operativedevice, and I do not limit my invention to the catch as herein shown anddescribed.

The device is assembled as follows: The raising-screw b is insertedthrough the socket a from thelower end and the sleeve 61 screwedthereon. The shank e of the corkscrew e is then inserted within theraising-screw b from the lower end, and the handle 0 then turneddownward to place upon the upper end of the raising-screw. The lowerWasher g is then placed within the socket c and the spiral spring seatedupon the Washer and the upper washer g secured in place, the shank e being held in place during this operation by pressure from the lower end.The tensioncap f is then turned to place upon the upper end of the shanke, placing the spring under tension.

The operation of the device is as follows: The raising-screw b being atthe upper limit of its play the collar d is placed at a distance abovethe upper edge of the socket a equal to the distance to which it isdesired to insert the corkscrew within the cork, the lower end of thecorkscrew at this time resting upon the top of the cork. By rotating thehandle 0 the corkscrew is screwed into the cork, the whole of thedevice, with the exception of the frame a, moving downward until thecollar (1 upon the raising-screw comes in contact with the edge of thesocket a As soon as this contact is made between the edges of the collardand socket a the turning of the corkscrew into the cork pulls the pin(2 out of the socket b and as soon as this pin is freed from the socketthe raising-screw b is free to turn independently of the corkscrew andthe oppositely-arranged thread 19 bearing within the within the raisingscrew, a locking slot 10- cated in the bottom of the raising screw, alocking pin borne in the cork screw to engage the locking slot, and aspring tending to hold the pin normally in engagement with said slot,all substantially as described.

EDWARD E. BRO\VN. Witnesses:

LYMAN R. NORTON, WARHAM H. WILLIAMS.

